Hat-holder.



J. R. CORTHELL.

HAT HOLDER.

APPLICATION FILED APB.24, 1913.

Patented Mar. 31, 1914.

I TTURNEY JENNIE It. CORTHELL, 0F PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

H.A.T-HOLDER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Mar. 31, 1914:.

Application filed April 24., 1913. Serial No. 763,324.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, J ENNIE R. GORTHELL, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Philadelphia, county of Philadelphia, State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in l lat-l lolders, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates broadly to supports and more particularly to a support adapted especially to hold a hat or similar article in a definite predetermined position.

The principal object of this invention is to provide a support formed with tubular arms arranged in such manner as to receive a hat pin to hold in position upon the support a hat or similar article.

Another object of this invention is to provide a support that will fixedly hold in a definite position a hat within a trunk, or upon a milliners stand, etc.

A further object of this invention is to provide a metallic support formed with tubular arms so arranged as to receive pins or similar articles to hold a hat or drapery in a definite predetermined position.

Other and further objects of this invention will in part be obvious and will in part be pointed out in the specification hereinafter following by reference to the accompanying drawings in which like characters are used to represent like parts throughout the several figures thereof.

Figure 1 is a perspective view showing one form of the support. Fig. 2 is a detail. view showing a detail of construction by means of which the tubular arms are attached to the vertical carrying rod looking in the direction of the arrow A in Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a perspective view of a different type of supporting bracket showing the manner in which the hat may be held upon the holder. Fig. 4 is a plan detail View showing the manner of intersection of the tubes and also illustrating the tubular arms as supported upon a circular bracing disk. In this view the tubes are broken away at the point of intersection to illustrate a construction whereby the intersecting portion is left unobstructed.

In millinery stores, and particularly in display windows, it is desirable in order to obtain the best display efi'ects that the hats be arranged in a definite position, and in order to insure a hat maintaining this position against drafts, winds, etc., it is necessary that it be fastened in position upon the support. It is difficult to arrange a hat in this manner upon a solid support. Attempts have been made to make a supporting plate or amilliners rest in the nature of a pin cushion, but this is objectionable because of the dust which the pad collects and because of its more or less unsightly, unharmonious appearance in connection with the other portions of the metallic fixture. It is also desirable in traveling that a hat, particularly a ladys hat, be so packed as not to be crushed, at the same time not to move about in the receptacle in which it is packed.

Referring to the drawings, and more particularly to Figs. 1 and 2, the device disclosed therein comprises a base or plate 1 which may be formed of a plate adapted to be secured to a side wall of a trunk, building, etc., or to be attached to a counter or similar device, or the base may be composed of the usual and well known weighted base which is commonly used for various types of supports. A carrying rod 2 is mounted upon the supporting base 1 and gives a sufficient height to the support to permit a hat. or similar article to be carried a sufficient height above the base to permit adjustment of the hat. A plurality of supporting arms 4 provided with openings in the ends thereof and preferably formed of tubular material, are carried by the supporting rod 2 at its upper end, and are preferably arranged to intersect directly over the aXis of the carrying rod in such manner as to leave an unobstructed opening through each sup porting arm.

Referring particularly to Fig. 2, which is a detail view showing the under side of the support illustrated in Fig. 1, as seen when looking in the direction of the arrow A, this view illustrates one method of mounting the supporting arms on the upper end of the carrying rod 2, by splitting the carrying rod into quadrant sections and bending each section outwardly, then brazing or soldering the out-turned portions 5 to the sections or tubing forming the supporting arms 4.

Fig. 3 illustrates a slightly modified form of the invention, showing the supporting arms mounted upon an elbow bracket adapted to be attached to a side wall, and showing the carrying rod 52 which. constitutes the elbow bracket, as being bent at substantially right angles and provided with a supporting brace 6 at the angle. This modification also shows the supporting arms as mounted upon a disk 7, which is soldered or attached to the carrying rod 2. F 3 also discloses a diagrammatic illustration of a hat 8 which is held in position on the supporting head by means of hat pins 9. It will be noted that the supporting arms are arranged at substantially right angles to each other and the internal diameter of the tubular arms is suiticient to permit the crossing of two hat pins at the point of intersection without interference one with the other. By this construction it will be noted that one hat pin may be placed through the hat in order to determine its particular tilt in one direction and the hat may then be moved upon this pin as an axis until the proper angle is determined in the other direction, when the second pin may be inserted, thus positively and rigidly securing the hat in the particular desired position.

Fig. 4: is a detail plan view showing a portion of the tubes at the point of intersection as broken away to illustrate the fact that all of the tubes are unobstructed.

Having described my invention what I desire to claim is 1. A support for hat bodies and the like comprising a base adapted to be attached to a supporting wall, a carrying rod supported by said base, a plurality of intersecting tubes mounted upon the end of said carrying rod, said tubes intersecting at substantially their mid portion and attached together at the point of intersection in a manner to provide a continuous hollow passage through each tube, and means for bracing said tubes at their intersection.

2. A support for hat bodies and the like comprising a supporting plate, a carrying rod carried by said supporting plate, a plurality of arms rigidly mounted upon said carrying rod and intersecting at substantially their mid portions, the outer ends of said arms being provided with openings to receive a hat pin, for the purpose described.

3. A device of the class described comprising in combination a supporting member, a carrying rod attached to said supporting member, and a rest mounted upon said carrying rod, said rest including a pair of tubes intersecting each other at right angles, and the axis of said tubes intersecting the axis of said carrying red at right angles.

JENNIE R. CORTH ELL.

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Washington I). G. 

